This April marks 15 years since the Biggest U.S. oil Spill At Sea and the largest in the petroleum industry’s history. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, or the BP Oil Spill, was a catastrophic event that occurred in the Gulf of America in 2010, and its environmental consequences are still felt today.
The oil spill originated from the Macondo Prospect situated in the Mississippi Canyon Block 252, around 70 km off the Louisiana Coast in the Gulf of America.
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